Central Alemannic

8.6M people can hold a conversation in Central Alemannic across 5 countries; official in 2.

Data as of 28 Oct 2026 · ISO 639-3 gsw · Glottolog swis1247 · Indo-European · CLDR 49, Glottolog 5.3, States sheet

Where Central Alemannic is spoken

Share of each country's people who can hold a conversation in it.

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Countries

Share of the population and people who can hold a conversation in it, by country.

How this is measured
Most figures are CLDR's estimates of speakers. CLDR lists only each country's larger languages, so where it has no figure a national census or official survey fills in, and the Figure column says which and what it counts. A home-language figure is a floor: more people can speak the language than use it at home.
1
de facto
66%
6.0M
2
2.3%
1.9M
3
none
0.9%
629K
4
85%
35K
5
none · Census, mother tongue
0.0%
8K

Family

Where it sits in the Glottolog tree, root to language.

  1. Indo-European
  2. Classical Indo-European
  3. Germanic
  4. Northwest Germanic
  5. West Germanic
  6. High German
  7. Upper German
  8. Middle-Modern High German
  9. Modern High German
  10. Alemannic
  11. South Alemannic
  12. Central Alemannic

Indo-European: 216 languages, 5.95B speakers.

Where these numbers come from

Definitions are on the Method page.